These are the words of dozens of people who claim to have seen a ghost plane flying through Derbyshire.

Since first reporting on the story on Monday, our newsroom has been flooded with calls and messages of sightings of what witnesses say was a dark-coloured Second World War aircraft in the sky on Monday evening.

There have been sightings in the Peak District as well as Ripley, Hilton, Hope, Matlock and Ambergate.

Sue Dorling, 57, of Hilton, said: “I was at the crossroads heading towards Hilton when this dark and low aircraft swept overhead.

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“They flew over our house in Bargate, in Belper. They were very low, huge and quiet and I wondered if anyone else had seen them.”

Engineer John Haigh was driving along Woodhead Pass heading towards Glossop when he saw two aircraft at some time between 6pm and 6.30pm on Monday evening.

He said: “There were two of them flying quite slowly close to the ground. They looked like they were grey, oldish army planes with no markings that I could see. I wanted to take a picture but there was nowhere to stop. They flew straight across the road then one of them started banking.”

Katrina Bayliss said this flew over Darley Dale

A woman from Derby, who did not wish to be named, said: “We were driving along Bretby Lane at between 6.45pm and 7pm and we saw a massive green and black military plane flying really low and not making any noise which was bizarre. A few cars in front of us had stopped so people could look at it."

Hairdresser Katie Redshaw, from Belper, saw the unidentified aircraft over the Jet garage at around 6.45pm.

She said: “I was really flabbergasted when I saw it. It was really strange and looked like it would crash.”

Kitchen worker Anne Donnellan saw the plane from her home in Hilton between 6pm and 7pm.

She said: “It was dark and looked really old and I thought ‘that’s a bit low’. There is an old airfield over in Egginton so I thought they maybe they were on training exercises. I’d never seen anything like it so close.”

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Thomas Slack, a builder from Horsley Woodhouse, said: “I was walking through the village and I saw two big planes which seemed to be chasing each other. They didn’t seem to be making any noise which was unusual and they were flying really low. I was scared at how low the second one was.”

Mark Dean, a building contractor from Ambergate, also saw an aircraft on Monday evening.

He said: “I think it was a Hercules. All we heard at first was the engines. It was about 6.45pm when we saw it flying really low over Derby Road.”

One resident who lives in Newbridge Road, in Ambergate, who did not wish to be named, said she saw two planes fly right past her bay window.

She said: "It was really scary, I was just sitting and reading when the first plane flew really low outside the bay window.

Paul Hawkins saw this over Duffield

"Just as I was getting over the shock, another one came over. If they had been any lower the wing would have gone straight through the window.

"It was very eerie and the planes looked grey and from the Second World War.

"I don't know whether they were ghosts, they seemed very real to me, but I had never seen anything like it."

One resident who lives in Newhall, in South Derbyshire, said: "I saw two planes like this on Monday night as I looked out my bedroom window they were so low that I thought they were going to land near here or crash as nearly touching the tops of trees and houses.

"I was shocked as I couldn't hear them at all then they were gone."

Question -1 of 8Score -0 of 0

What object is thought to be behind poltergeist activities at Jorrocks in Iron Gate?

Formerly The George Inn, and for a while Lafferty's, Jorrocks, in Iron Gate, has a long and haunting history